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“China is a complete surprise that can shock you, make you laugh, make you frustrated, make you happy, or make you doubt yourself. In the end, life is always about getting to know yourself better, and being completely out of my comfort zone in China gives me a platform to do that.”

On a recent visit to the village of Peizhai, in central China’s Henan Province, I witnessed the achievements made on one particular community’s road to modernization—as well as how they are maintaining traditions despite the quick development.

In 2005, villagers invited local-born entrepreneur Pei Chun- liang, who was working elsewhere, to return to head the village committee. Since then, Pei has led his fellow villagers to dig deep wells, erect greenhouses and build commercial streets and reservoirs.

In 1936, when Japanese troops attacked China’s Suiyuan region, Fang, then a photo correspondent with the China and Foreign Journalism Society, contributed a number of news photos and articles from the frontlines.However, Fang went missing after his last battlefield report on Ta Kung Pao on September 30, 1937.

In China today, the definition of “middle class” doesn’t necessarily include every white collar worker. The middle class here is complicated if you take into account economic norms, occupation standards and education.

Pei is one of the 35 million rural CPC members in China. They have led their fellow CPC members to help lift tens of millions of rural Chinese out of poverty in the past few decades, a miracle that the world marvels at.